Kimberley Safety and Risk can provide qualified consultants experienced with different investigation methodologies to facilitate your investigation processes and can also assist with the development of your investigation strategies including:
“An accident is any unplanned event that results in personal injury or property damage”
The purpose of an investigation into an accident is the gathering of the information to determine how and why the accident occurred in order to prevent it from happening again.
Experience has shown that accidents are rarely simple and almost never result from a single cause.
Each incident or accident is a learning opportunity, but one that could be wasted unless theeffort put into analysing it focuses on discovering the true underlying causes of the incidentrather than focusing on the people directly involved and the immediate causes of theirfailure.
Incident investigation is one of the tools for improving control over hazards in theworking environment. It is a retrospectivetool – applied once the flaws in our systemshave drawn attention to themselves via an incident. Any modern organisation may also havein place proactive methods of observation, inspection and audit as complementary methodsfor improving hazard control.
An investigator who believes that accidents are caused by unsafe conditions will likely try to uncover conditions as causes. On the other hand, one who believes they are caused by unsafe acts will attempt to find the human errors that are causes. Therefore, it is necessary to examine some underlying factors in a chain of events that ends in an accident.
The accident investigation process involves the following steps:
As little time as possible should be lost between the moment of an accident or near miss and the beginning of the investigation. In this way, the investigator is most likely to be able to observe the conditions as they were at the time, prevent disturbance of evidence, and identify witnesses.
Your organisation may need to initiate an independent workplace investigation if:
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